Talk:Acid

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Chromic Acid

Not normally used by DIYers, but occasionally used for extreme ceramic sink cleaning. Its exceptionally effective, but very toxic and should be avoided entirely.

  • Can set fire to organic materials like paper and skin.
  • Disposal creates serious problems, contaminating land and food crops.

NT 21:42, 24 September 2014 (BST)

Concentrated/Dilute

Much of the page is about the concentrated forms. Excepting of course hydroflouric acid, most of these acids are relatively harmless when diluted with water to about 5%. I think that needs to be more conspicuously expressed in the text (which I cannot at present edit).

Hydrogen Chloride is a very nasty gas at all d-i-y temperatures; concentrated hycrochloric acid is an aquesous solution containing about 35% HCl.

Hydrofluoric acid will also be found as a solution, as the boiling point of pure HF is 19.5°C.

The final link under Citric Acid, MSDS, is dead.

I think that it would be useful to start each section with a link to the corrresponding wikipedia page(s).

John Stockton (talk) 17:35, 18 October 2015 (BST)